Jack McGill on the run from Spanish police after skipping bail following his arrest with Harrison in October 2006.

Ex-drug dealer Jack McGill’s body was discovered hanged in woodland, it emerged yesterday. McGill, 52, had been on the run from Spanish police after skipping bail following his arrest with Harrison in October 2006. They were accused of attacking two men in Malaga. The uncle spent five months on remand in jail before bail was posted – while his ex-WBO featherweight champ nephew was freed within weeks. McGill’s body was found in Glasgow. Last night a source said: “He felt abandoned by the Harrison camp.” The fighter, 30, who hails from the city, denies assault and will stand trial in Spain in S...

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Banesto corruption allegations

Former International Monetary Fund head Rodrigo Rato appeared before a judge Tuesday probing corruption allegations at Spanish bank Banesto whilst he was economy minister, Spanish media said. Rato, his brother Ramon, the head of Santander bank Emilio Botin and 12 others are being investigated in connection with the 1999 purchase by Banesto of 45.3 percent of the Aguas de Fuensanta water utility company from the Rato family.In his one-hour appearance, Rato, who was economy minister in the conservative government at the time, denied wrongdoing and said he was not aware of the details of sale, Spanish...

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Three Spanish nationals and ten Moroccans between the ages of 18 and 51, were arrested on Thursday

Police in Spain said Sunday they had smashed a drug trafficking ring with the arrest of 13 mostly Moroccan men in Barcelona and the seizure of narcotics worth 41,000 euros (64,000 dollars), AFP informed. The 13, three Spanish nationals and ten Moroccans between the ages of 18 and 51, were arrested on Thursday following an investigation that lasted several months, police said in a statement. "The operation remains open and more detentions have not been ruled out," it said. Police seized cocaine worth 5,000 euros and hashish worth 36,000 euros, as well as scales and tools to prepare the drugs, and...

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Isabel García, the wife of Santiago del Valle, the man accused of the killing of the five year old girl from Huelva

Isabel García, the wife of Santiago del Valle, the man accused of the killing of the five year old girl from Huelva, Mari Luz Cortés, suffered a nervous attack while declaring before Instruction Court 1 in Huelva about the case. The extent of her indisposition was such that the hearing had to be suspended.She arrived at Huelva Provincial Court at 4,45pm yesterday evening and was first subjected to a forensic investigation to determine her mental health. When she was then taken before the judge she suffered the attack and an ambulance had to be called, which finally took her shouting and crying...

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British man has been arrested in Spain in connection with rape offences

A British man has been arrested in Spain in connection with rape offences committed in south-east London, police have said.The 49-year-old is accused of raping the same victim repeatedly over a number of years. Sources named the man as Ricky Devine. He was held in Alicante on the Costa del Sol earlier this month.He is being held under a European Arrest warrant and faces extradition to the UK. The offences are alleged to have taken place in Bexley from 2000. A spokesman for Scotland Yard said: "Spanish police arrested a 49-year-old British man on suspicion of rape on May ...

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stag party-goers Bus driver arrested during the early hours after a positive breath test

The 45 year old driver of a bus carrying a party of nineteen stag party-goers was arrested during the early hours of yesterday morning after a positive breath test at a routine police control, leaving his passengers to make their own way back to Sevilla city-centre on foot. The man was stopped at around 4.30am on the SE-30 near the Tablada/ exhibition centre exit. He was taken into custody after officers also discovered that his licence had already been confiscated, and jailed following a preliminary court hearing yesterd...

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Spain has announced the arrest of five hackers

Spain has announced the arrest of five hackers said to be responsible for attacks on over 21,000 web pages and more over two years.Back in March, hackers shut down the site of one of Spain’s political parties following an election. The Spanish police began to investigate, and last week announced they’d arrested the culprits, the BBC has reported.They’ve been accused not only of the Spanish crime, but also with attacking government sites in Asia, Latin America and the US.Among the fives, who were arrested in Barcelona, Burgos, Malaga and Valencia, were two 16-year-ol...

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Police are investigating the death of a 35-year-old woman who was found in a swimming pool

Police are investigating the death of a 35-year-old woman who was found in the swimming pool at the house where she lived in the Arroyo Gragea area of Alhaurin de la Torre. Police initially suspected her husband, from whom she was separated and whom she had reported on several occasions for threatening to kill her, abusing her and telling her to get out of the house, but he was later released. She had also presented complaints against him for such actions as slashing her tyres, taking away her keys...

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men on two motorbikes stole 5,000 euros from a man who had just withdrawn the money from a bank in Los Boliches

Four men on two motorbikes stole 5,000 euros from a man who had just withdrawn the money from a bank in Los Boliches, Fuengirola, firing blanks to intimidate him and managing to take the envelope full of money, which they seem to have known he was carrying, from him. They then escaped on the motorbikes, one a white Yamaha scooter which had been stolen from Mijas some days earlier.National Police circulated a bulletin in an attempt to trace the robbers, but with no success. This type of crime is becoming more frequent in the province. One month ago, 20,000 euros were stolen from a woman in Velez...

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Eight suspects detained and a considerable amount of drugs seized was the outcome of a large-scale police operation carried out recently in Olhao

Eight suspects detained and a considerable amount of drugs seized was the outcome of a large-scale police operation carried out recently in Olhao and Faro. Thirty police investigators assisted by a team of the PSP Police Special Forces performed nine house searches and confiscated 6,000 individual doses of cocaine, one firearm, 40 mobile phones and 13,500 euros in cash. According to a police source, the suspects were part of an organised crime gang involved in drug trafficking. The same source said the police investigation, which started in February 2007, was able to fully dismantle the operation....

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Sentenced a 46-year-old Portuguese woman, who was found to have almost 500g of cocaine

Sentenced a 46-year-old Portuguese woman, who was found to have almost 500g of cocaine in the home she shared with another woman in La Joya area, to three years in prison for a crime against public health and set a 1,000-euro fine for selling substances that endanger public health. The sentence was reduced due to the woman’s addiction to the substance which she sold out of a broken window to pay for her own habit and which had diminished her mental capacity. In June 2006, National Police found 422.32 grams of the drug in 150 packs of different size and weight, with a pureness of between 27 and...

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Aloa sailing ship, which sails under a German flag, had been moored in the Almerimar Port in El Ejido and was being prepared to distribute hashish,

code-named ‘Operacion Testa’, and carried out by members of the Customs Vigilance Service (DAVA) and the Guardia Civil, led to the arrest of two people found to be carrying some 2,100 kilos of hashish on a boat 10 miles south of Almeria Port.The operation began last November, targeting pleasure boats in the area which were believed to be transporting drugs. The Aloa sailing ship, which sails under a German flag, had been moored in the Almerimar Port in El Ejido and was being prepared to distribute hashish, which had been picked up in Morocco, through local ports Officers who boarded the ship found...

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Drug arrests came after two boats ran out of fuel and had to wait in the estuary for a third to bring fresh supplies of gasoline

Eleven people have been arrested in connection with the smuggling of 5,100 kilos of hashish.‘Operación Carabela’ began last December and was an investigation into an international network of drugs smugglers bringing hashish into Spain via the Guadalquivir river and then distributing it throughout Europe.Sometimes the organisation used fishing boats, other time they used speed boats. The arrests came after two boats ran out of fuel and had to wait in the estuary for a third to bring fresh supplies...

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Spanish police to gain rights of arrest in the U.K.

Detectives from Europe will be able to carry out investigations and even make arrests on British soil as part of specialist squads designed to combat international crime.Members of the European police force Europol – which includes Britain and France – can now form Joint Investigation Teams using officers from each national force.They will include officers from the Metropolitan Police and the Serious Organised Crime Agency and will target criminal gangs. Previously, European police could travel to this country to share intelligence – but could not make arrests. A spokesman for SOCA said: “This...

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Two of Spain's respected savings banks, 'La Caixa' in Barcelona and 'Caja Madrid,' were found liable,

A six month trial has led to the conviction of eight people, on charges of fraud and embezzlement in the 'Gescartera' brokerage house, during June 2001. Gescartera was rumbled and lost its licence, when it was discovered that over 100 million euros of some 2,000 clients' money was missing. The collapse caused massive political unrest and the resignations of the Junior Finance Minister and President of Stock market regulator 'CNMV.' Judges passed prison terms of between 3 and 11 years to those concerned, while penalties totalling 88 million euros were ordered to be paid out to investors who lost...

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